Sometimes we have some non-standard workdays here in the Reservation Stewardship department of the Forest Society. Mostly our land stewards expect that we may call on them for help with trail maintenance, view clearing, or even the occasional trash clean up. This summer we've had an on-going project at the Wilkins-Campbell Forest in Deering to restore the site of a former summer camp to natural conditions. That means buildings, electric, docks, foundations, everything must go... it's quite a process, and we've had incredible help from our land steward at Wilkins-Campbell, Bob Macentee, in facilitating the whole ordeal. We also had a land steward workday, probably the first of several before we're through, to help sort through all of the items on site and "deconstruct" things like the latrines and bunk beds and cabinets.
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| Wendy and Alex going through a storage shed |
Everything that can possibly be re-used or recycled is being sent to those higher purposes- we've made several runs to goodwill, metal recycling, and found homes for a lot of usable items. When all is said and done, hopefully all that will be left are a couple of picnic tables by the side of Deering Reservoir. It's a beautiful spot to walk in and have lunch by the water, and we hope it will get a lot of appropriate use from people in surrounding communities. But we've still got a lot of work to do to get to that point...
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| Lunch for the work crew, beside Deering Reservoir |
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